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Köp båda 2 för 262 krHard as nails and soft as tears, this is Zinks best yet Monocle Theres a liveliness in Zinks prose, an exuberance that carries the reader Zink writes with a joyful recklessness the sense that maybe she did write this novel in three weeks that makes her one of the freshest talents around. Joe Dunthorne, The Guardian Nicotine is another hilarious and generally blurb-defying display of off-the-wall firepower. Zink has enormous fun with her cast of clueless, horny, hippy activists, but shes the real anarchic spirit. Its weirdly affecting, totally addictive and exhilaratingly unlike anything else youll read Daily Mail Nicotine is a fitting title. Her sentences are like cigarettes: the first few are dizzying and not always pleasant, but before you know it, youre hooked. Nicotine is a very funny book that has very serious things to say about the hypocrisies of millennial attitudes to love and power and desire. The Daily Telegraph***** Nicotine is addictive she combines the fiercely funny with whipsmart originality to dizzying effect Stylist Nicotine proves Zinks distinctive verve as mesmerising as ever Independent Zinks prose is an always fascinating instrument, one as flitting and amorphous as the attention span of her characters Her sentences can stun, perfectly nailing a situation or emotion The Spectator The extended description of Norms death is full of persuasive, unflinching detail; Zink takes time and care, to powerful effect Sunday Times Deadly dry comedy. Zinks unconventionality is refreshing The Times, Books of the Year Shes a startlingly original voice, playfully wise, sometimes disturbing Big Issue North Zink is an audacious writer she always creates vibrant, off-kilter worlds for her characters to inhabit The Times Nicotine is a whirlwind of a book Zink has a great gift for ventriloquism. Her work brims with funny dialogue rollicking fun for the 300 or so pages that it lasts TLS
Nell Zink grew up in rural Virginia. She has worked at a variety of trades, including masonry and technical writing, and in the early 1990s, edited an indie rock fanzine. Her books include The Wallcreeper and Mislaid and her writing has appeared in n+1. She lives near Berlin, Germany.